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Norcross WR flips from Georgia State to Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech sent out a last-minute football scholarship offer to an Atlanta kid who committed on the spot.

Clinton Lynch, a wide receiver from Norcross High School, flipped from Georgia State to Georgia Tech on Tuesday after getting a call from Yellow Jackets defensive coordinator Ted Roof.

The 5-foot-11, 180-pound Lynch was also a candidate to get a last-minute offer from Vanderbilt.

“Coach Roof called me around 10 or 11; I was in my AP Lit class, and I was just walking out of there,” Lynch told the AJC. “He asked me how good I slept last night. Yesterday he told me that they would have an answer for me by today. I couldn’t really sleep that well because I was thinking about it too much. He asked why and I told him.

“Then Coach Roof said ‘You’ve got the offer you were looking for’ and I was so relieved after that. I committed on the spot.”

Lynch got overshadowed with college scouts because he played with a cast of high-profile recruits on a Norcross team that has won back-to-back state championships in Georgia’s largest classification. Lynch led the Blue Devils with 47 catches for 912 yards and four touchdowns.

Clinton Lynch (247sports)

“He’s a great player,” Norcross coach Keith Maloof said. “He was under the radar the whole recruiting season. They (Georgia Tech) are getting a diamond in the rough. He’s perfect for their system. He’s a great player and a great kid. He’s one of the best players we have.

I’m sure they will use him at both (wide receiver and A-Back). I’m sure they will start him off at the A-Back. And the good thing about it is that if they go to throwing formation, they don’t have to change personnel because he can go out and do that.”

Georgia Tech is also recruiting one of his teammates, Norcross “athlete” Myles Autry, who will decide between the Yellow Jackets and FSU at 3:40 p.m. Wednesday.

“(Lynch) came up to me and said he committed to GT,” Autry told the AJC. “That’s awesome. I’m happy for him. That’s my buddy. It won’t affect my decision. If I don’t go there, we’ll still be friends. If I do, then that’s great for GT fans and the GT nation.”

Georgia Tech has 19 commits for 2013. Lynch is rated as a 2-star and the state’s No. 200 overall prospect, per 247sports.com’s composite rankings.

Michael, I may be out of line in making this post, but I think there are quite a few others on here who would agree with me in saying, "why wait?" He is ALWAYS trashing kids. He trashes coaches and other bloggers as well, but that's par for the course on blogs. He has trashed kids under every single name that he has used on these blogs, having been banned 4 different times already in the past. Blogs are meant to be entertaining, amusing at times, and fun at times, but MikeBanning, aka WnE, aka CiraldosGhost, etc is always caustic and disruptive. PLEASE get rid of him once and for all.

You have been banned at least 3 other times for disrupting the blogs, and each time you come back, initially appearing to have reformed, until your true nature gets the best of you, and you resort to the same disruptive behavior, trashing everything you can about anybody and anything to do with Georgia Tech.

By the way, Michael threatened to ban you for posts YOU made earlier tonight, and he did that without any prompting from me or probably any other poster. He made that threat because of what YOU YOURSELF posted.

@MikeBanning Next time you trash a kid like you did in this blog or the Kendall Gant blog (along with his coach), you will not be allowed to post in this blog anymore. I appreciate you for commenting but trashing kids will not be permitted. FInal warning

@MikeBanning@AugustaJacket I am pretty sure Harbaugh didn't pander to recruits. He got good recruits to buy into his system. Period. That's how life works. CPJ has a really good looking class and I think that GT is moving back in the right direction.

@MikeBanning @AugustaJacket The same reason they never bought into any other GT coaches system. We have one major for them to choose from.

Maybe if we diversify the curriculum, and post an easy classes for athletes list, we could get more recruits?

Here's the big difference. Stanford has a half BILLION endowment for athletics alone. Stanford made the commitment to pay top dollar for coaches and assistants. Stanford threw a ton of money at their football program. GT is not in a position to do that. To a lesser degree, that is the same reason uga has fallen behind the SEC heavyweights in recent years. You have to spend a lot of money to recruit.

It also helps to have some more athlete friendly degrees to recruit them into.